The general Liu Heimin won many battles in Hebei, and the situation was very good, but Xiao Miao, who was originally powerful, was weakening day by day.

At first, after Xiao Mo became the emperor, the founding generals relied on the military power in their hands to run rampant and domineering, and they had no court, which made Xiao Mo a headache.

So, Xiao Mo issued an edict to suspend the army for farming, dismissed the generals' military powers, and let those proud soldiers disarm and return to the field.

The generals were naturally unwilling, so they launched a mutiny, but they were suppressed by Xiao Mill, and the generals who started the rebellion were beheaded by Xiao Mill.

Later, Xiao Mo killed many heroes due to suspicion, so many former ministers were afraid and defected one after another.

As soon as Li Xiaogong's crusade army set out, Zhou Faming, an official of Southern Liang, led the soldiers and civilians of the four states to surrender to Li Xiaogong.

As a result, Li Xiaogong appointed Zhou Faming as the governor of Huangzhou, and then continued to advance and capture Anzhou.

Hearing that Anzhou fell into the hands of the Tang army, Lei Changying, an official of the Southern Liang, surrendered to the Tang Dynasty with Lushan.

In the end, many Southern Liang officials dedicated the city to Li Xiaogong.

Xiao Mo knew that after the local officials descended to the Tang Dynasty, he was angry in his heart, but he couldn't save people's hearts.

As a result, Xiao Milling sent Wen Shihong to lead his troops to resist Li Xiaogong.

Not long after, Li Xiaogong and Wen Shihong met at the mouth of the Qingjiang River.

Taking advantage of the advantages of the new warships and firearms, the Tang army defeated Wen Shihong and captured 1,000 enemy warships.

The news was transmitted back to the capital Jiangling, and the Chinese scholar Lang Cen Wen persuaded Xiao Miao: "Your Majesty, I heard that the warships of the Tang Army are much larger than ours, and the river is running smoothly and at a much faster speed than ours.

"The Tang army is menacing, and we must strengthen our defenses to prevent the Tang army from taking advantage of the situation to attack the capital."

Xiao Mo didn't care, he said: "The reason why Li Yuan was able to defeat Liu Wuzhou, Wang Shichong, and Dou Jiande was only because his cavalry was very powerful.

"But the cavalry is only good at fighting on the ground, and if it is fighting on the water, the Tang army is inferior to our army.

"Li Xiaogong is not very capable, he defeated Wen Shihong, he is proud in his heart, and he will definitely continue to move forward.

"They are not good at water warfare, so they naturally don't know that the rising water is not conducive to boating, and now that the water is rising, he will inevitably be submerged in the water if he leads his troops forward."

Xiao Mo raised the corners of his mouth, his face full of confidence: "You wait and see, after Li Xiaogong wins this battle, he will never be able to win against us." ”

Cen Wenwen persuaded again, and was driven out of the hall by Xiao Miao.

However, the world did not go as Xiao Mo expected, in the case of a sharp rise in the water, the Tang army's warships were like walking on the ground, all the way like a bamboo.

Li Xiaogong successively captured Yichang, Dangyang, Zhijiang, Songzi and other counties, and Gai Yan, the governor of Jiangzhou, surrendered when he heard the news.

Li Jing led the main army to capture the two important military towns of Jingmen and Yidu one after another, and then quickly arrived at Yiling.

At this point, the Nanliang portal was opened, and the capital Jiangling was suddenly exposed to the eyes of the Tang army.

At this time, Xiao Mo realized the strength of Tang Jun and panicked all of a sudden. He hurriedly ordered Wen Shihong to lead 80,000 elite sailors into the Qingjiang River to resist the Tang army.

Li Xiaogong and Li Jing led their troops to attack, defeated Wen Shihong, and captured hundreds of warships.

And Wen Shihong couldn't help but lose the warship and sacrifice tens of thousands of soldiers.

Li Xiaogong took advantage of the victory to pursue, and when he arrived at Bailizhou, Wen Shihong led the remnants to fight against him and was defeated again.

The Tang Army's naval army drove straight into Jiangling.

At this moment, Xiao Mo regretted it incomparably, why did he disband the army?

If he hadn't ordered those soldiers to be disarmed and returned to the field, then he would never have only a 5,000-strong Praetorian Guard left with him now.

But there is no regret medicine in the world......

Xiao Mo did not indulge in remorse, and he immediately issued an edict to all parts of the territory.

Cen Wenwen couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed: "The sky is going to kill my beam......"

Being beaten by the Tang army like this, the armies of the nearby states and counties either perished or surrendered to Li Xiaogong. At this time, in addition to the Janissaries in the capital, only the armies of Jiangnan and Lingnan were left in Daliang.

But these two places are far away from Gangneung, and even if they receive the edict and rush to the rescue, it will be too late.

As a result, Xiao Mo had to send the Praetorian Guards to board the warship and go out of the city to defend against the Tang army.

Seeing this, Li Xiaogong prepared to immediately launch an attack on the Liang army.

Li Jing dissuaded: "This is Xiao Miao's last stubborn resistance, they still have fighting spirit, we might as well anchor on the south bank for the time being and recuperate for a day."

"In this way, the strength of the Liang army will definitely be scattered, and it is very likely that a part of the resistance to our army will be left, and a part will return to the city to defend it.

"The division of troops is weak, and at this time, our army will take advantage of its slackness to launch an attack, and it will surely win.

"If you attack sharply at this time, the Liang army will definitely fight to the death, and the soldiers of Chu have always been fierce, and it is not so easy to defeat.

"So, I don't think it's time to attack."

However, Li Xiaogong did not listen to Li Jing's dissuasion.

In his opinion, the Tang army was like a bamboo, and the troops were sharp, and there was no need to worry about the army of a few thousand people in front of him.

Therefore, Li Xiaogong ordered Li Jing to stay in the camp on the south bank, and he personally led the elite to attack.

As Li Jing expected, the Liang army, which had no way to retreat, had to fight to the death, and Li Xiaogong, who was careless about the enemy, was defeated and returned.

When Li Xiaogong was defeated and fled, he discarded a large number of military equipment, and the soldiers of the Liang army abandoned their boats and landed on the shore to loot the booty.

Seeing that the Liang army was in chaos, Li Jing immediately waved his division to counterattack, broke the Liang army, chased to Jiangling by victory, entered the outer city, and quickly captured Shuicheng, capturing more than 1,000 warships.

Afterwards, Li Jing suggested that the ships be lowered into the river and allowed to drift downstream.

The generals were puzzled and expressed their opposition.

They said, "What I have gained from destroying the enemy should be for my use, so why should I abandon it?" ”

Seeing the bewilderment on everyone's faces, Li Jing patiently explained: "The place where Xiao Mill is based, from Lingbiao in the south to Dongting in the east, his army is still huge.

"We are alone, and if we can't conquer Gangneung in time and wait for the enemy's reinforcements to gather, we will definitely fall into the dilemma of being attacked by the enemy on our backs and in a dilemma.

"Even if you have these ships, what can you do?

"If we abandon these warships and let them go downstream, the Liang troops everywhere will inevitably think that Jiangling has fallen and will not dare to enter lightly.

"Even if we send people to reconnoitre, it will take at least ten days and a half to go back and forth, and by then we will have already taken Gangneung."

Li Xiaogong and the generals suddenly realized that they followed the plan.

When more than a thousand empty warships drifted silently downstream, the Liang army along the coast couldn't help but be shocked.

Their only reaction was - Gangneung had fallen, and the girder was finished.

After Li Xiaogong and Li Jing led their troops to besiege Gangneung, they quickly cut off all contact between Gangneung and the outside world.

Xiao Mo knew that the general trend had gone, and said to the civil and military officials with a sad expression: "God does not bless Liang, if you try your best to fight to the death, then the lives will be ruined, how can I make the people suffer because of me alone?"

"You should surrender before the city falls, so as not to harm the people.

"If everyone loses me, why should there be no king?"

So, at the end of October, Xiao Mo said goodbye to the Taimiao for the last time, and then ordered to open the door and surrender.

Dressed in sackcloth and wrapped in a cloth scarf, he came to the door of the Tang military camp with hundreds of officials, and said to Li Xiaogong: "When the deceased is only Xiao, the people are not guilty, please do not kill and plunder." ”

Hearing this, the defenders of the city couldn't help but cry......